The First Player

[If all of humanity places its hope in one person, will civilization fare well?]

"When you read this, the life-and-death game to redeem the planet has already begun."

"All o...

Final Chapter: Guarding the Shore [23] · "Chapter 8 "Hometown I Can't Return To" (Author: Luna et al.)

"Rustle--" the sound of pen falling.

"In this story, many people are willing to give up their future and stay in the land where they need to overcome difficulties the most."

"That dedicated female knight was at the forefront of the story. However, when I asked her what she thought, she would rather seal the sea of ​​stars in a glass jar and measure the earth with her calloused hands instead, and no longer move forward."

"When her companions lamented her abandoned potential, she smiled and pointed to the daisies all over the hills and said--"

"'These plants, whose roots are deeply rooted in their native land, are weaving the long and deep scars of their stories into yellow flames.'"

"——'Some growth does not need to climb upwards, the roots spreading downwards can also support the entire spring.'"

[Story name: "The Fourth Disaster: I Create a Utopia in the Cyber ​​Wasteland"]

【Creator: Luna】

[Story categories: Cyberpunk, The Fourth Disaster, Infrastructure, Mechanical Ascension]

[Story summary: Lu Xixi, a low-level engineer abandoned by the company, was unexpectedly blessed by the gods and thrown into a small world, becoming the leader of the fourth disaster. ]

[“Let millions of players help me with infrastructure construction?” Lucy smiled, knowing that this cold technological city was about to change.]

[From building a windmill, a panda house, a lavender garden, to building a Taihua Mountain; from improving the welfare of the poor to a utopian social system... Lu Xixi and her "Scandal Army" transformed the cold data city into the breathing old Zhaixing. ]

[They said to the people of the future——]

【“Fellow countrymen, welcome home.” 】

[This book is also known as "When the Fourth Calamity Created Zhai Xing from Scratch" and "I Am Invincible in Building My Homeland in the Small World"]

Time: Week 3

Location: Small World

Characters: Temporary Lord Su Mianbao, Assistant Luna, God Su Mingan

Su Mianbao (rushing over): "Father God...I miss you."

(You noticed that Su Mianbao’s hair had turned gray and wrinkles appeared on his face. You know that the life span of this messenger of God, from the beginning of the small world to today, is not much.)

(You once worried that she would betray you, become ill, and imprison you like a yandere, but in the end you found that this girl never tried to betray you once.)

You: “We’re almost in.”

(Your words were so light, but they seemed to be a resounding declaration of fate, and everyone present was shocked involuntarily)

Luna (with a slightly frosted hair and a look of melancholy and relief): "No problem, everything is ready."

You: “How are the first batch of players coming in…?”

(After the first batch of players came in, several more batches of players entered the small world. After hundreds of years of polishing, the speed of time in the small world gradually slowed down, but the initial batch of people...)

Luna (dropping her eyelids): "They... are basically gone. Even with the hibernation chamber, even if we take turns hibernating, it's still too long, too long..."

Luna: "Fortunately, everyone died peacefully, lived a happy life, and was free from illness and disaster."

Luna: "And I... I'm stronger, so I'm fine."

(Her choice to enter the small world was equivalent to giving up her own future. There were no gods or angels here. She had no way to contact the realm of gods, so she naturally could not ascend to godhood and her life span was limited.)

You: “I’m so sorry…”

Luna (smiling): "You know what? The first thing those guys said before they left was to tell me not to feel guilty, otherwise you will definitely have internal conflicts again. Spending a lifetime in such a peaceful world is actually a dream that many people cannot reach. They devote their lives to the development of this world, all voluntarily."

Luna: "The only pity is... they died before you arrived."

Luna: "If I had tried harder, maybe they would have seen you coming."

(The pioneers held the flame, and you could no longer see in which year they fell.)

(The lady looks at you with a silent determination in her eyes.)

(You remembered your first meeting, on the Praia ship, when you had an unpleasant quarrel and she was far less mature than she is now. You could even become enemies, but the possibility of sliding into the abyss disappeared the moment she jumped off the Ninth World train.)

(You are so lucky to have met so many admirable people.)

Luna: "...By the way, I haven't introduced my love to you yet."

Luna: "Come and see."

(You looked over in surprise. Luna has lived here for hundreds of years, so it is normal for her to have a lover. She once liked a girl like Siber, so what kind of person would she like here?)

(Luna takes you through the misty rain of the city. The streets are the usual scenery of Zhai Xing. The traffic lights flicker in the misty water. There is no tension of the world game on the faces of pedestrians, only the tranquility of life. You bathe in the gray-blue sky, tilting the umbrella handle, and staring at the sky in a trance.)

(For a moment I thought you had really returned to your hometown.)

(Luna raised her head, facing the drizzling rain, and smiled gently like you, pointing her finger to the sky.)

Luna: "My love is out there in the sky."

Luna: "One day, I will definitely meet her."

(You don't know whether she is referring to Siber, whom she has not forgotten for hundreds of years, or whether she is looking forward to a lover she has never met. Or, has she already regarded her lover as her hometown?)

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